Forward of the 2022 Met Gala, Olivia Rodrigo sparked relationship rumors once more when the singer was seen out in New York Metropolis with 25-year-old DJ Zack Bia. A supply advised E! that the 2 have been spending time collectively and having “a number of enjoyable.”

“Zack [feels] that Olivia is de facto all the way down to earth and he loves how low-key she is,” the supply stated. “It is a good steadiness between them.”

On June 21, 2022, People confirmed that Rodrigo and Bia have been formally relationship and had been for months. “They have been relationship because the Tremendous Bowl,” a supply stated. “They actually like one another.”

Then, in August of 2022, it was reported that the connection had ended. So who’s Bia and what’s his historical past with Rodrigo? This is all we all know up to now.

Olivia Rodrigo and Zack Bia out in NYC on April 25, 2022.

Rodrigo and Bia began “casually hanging out” in February 2022.

Rodrigo beforehand dated Adam Faze till January 2022. A month later, Rodrigo and Bia have been seen collectively across the Tremendous Bowl, which befell on February 13. They’ve been “seeing one another” extra since then, a supply advised E!.

“He invited her to Tremendous Bowl events that he was DJing that weekend and she or he went to help him,” the supply stated. “They hit it off and have been casually hanging out.”

A supply advised People on June 21 that Rodrigo and Bia truly began relationship at the moment. “They have been relationship because the Tremendous Bowl,” the supply stated.

In April 2022, Rodrigo and Bia have been nonetheless having “a number of enjoyable” collectively and making issues work after they can with their busy schedules.

Whereas Rodrigo and Bia journey loads for his or her jobs (Rodrigo, notably, is on tour), a supply advised E! they’ve “made the trouble to remain in contact and spend time collectively when attainable,” the outlet wrote.

They mesh effectively, the supply stated, including that “Zack [feels] that Olivia is de facto all the way down to earth and he loves how low-key she is. It is a good steadiness between them.”

Rodrigo and Bia have been photographed collectively in New York Metropolis on April 25.

Additional fueling romance rumors, Rodrigo and Bia have been photographed leaving Bar Pitti on April 25. The photograph company famous that Rodrigo and Bia had frolicked for the previous few months, posing collectively at Rodrigo’s nineteenth party in photographs. See the photograph of their Bar Pitti outing above.

Rodrigo does not comply with Bia on Instagram, however she did like his Valentine’s Day put up.

Bia follows Rodrigo on Instagram, however Rodrigo, who does not comply with any person, hasn’t returned the favor. She did like his Valentine’s Day put up although the place he wrote about his February 2022 Complex profile.

In late June 2022, a supply advised People that Bia and Rodrigo very a lot have emotions for one another.

A supply advised People merely that the non-public couple started their romance in February. Now, 4 months in, “they actually like one another,” the supply stated.

Bia beforehand dated Madison Beer on-off till their March 2019 breakup.

Rodrigo will not be Bia’s first high-profile potential accomplice. Bia was with singer Madison Beer for almost one yr until March 2019. Beer confirmed their break up herself on her Twitter and alluded to their being main drama between them in a collection of tweets. “Earlier than you diagnose your self with despair and nervousness be sure to’re not simply surrounded by assholes and individuals who don’t care about you,” she wrote. She added, “oof i rlly owe myself the most important apology for puttin up w shit i by no means deserved.”

Bia was born in New York and moved to Los Angeles for highschool. He went to USC for faculty and have become a nightclub promoter whereas there.

As Bia defined to i-D in July 2020, “My mother and father are from Paris, however I used to be born in New York, and after I was twelve or 13 I moved to Los Angeles with my mother and brother,” he stated. (Bia’s mother and father obtained divorced when Bia was 9.) “My mother was a modeling agent and she or he labored in vogue—we did not have some huge cash however I grew up with some actually cool stuff. She made me hearken to music, took me to museums, and taught me a lot.”

“Once we moved to L.A., it was a bit harder and I needed to do issues for myself,” he continued. “I used to be very fortunate although, I used to be despatched to a very good public faculty and after I was 18, by probability, I had the chance to work in a membership. It was a method that I may begin paying for issues myself. In the course of the day, I went to highschool after which I labored at evening. I sort of had a double life.”

He credited H.Wooden Group proprietor John Terzian for actually making his profession. “I noticed him as a mentor, and I grew to become his proper hand after I was nineteen,” he stated. “We grew stronger collectively. I confirmed him the brand new stuff that I believed was cool, he launched me to his older contacts after which we opened Delilah. That’s when all the things modified. Delilah is to LA what Chiltern Firehouse is to London. It isn’t a membership, there’s no who’s-who, no promoters; it was simply John and I dealing with the reservations with our staff, and we created a restaurant the place folks needed to remain after their meals.” (Delilah is a serious celeb hotspot to at the present time.)

Bia is shut mates with a number of younger Hollywood, together with Kendall Jenner (who usually likes his Instagrams) and Drake.

In his June 2020 GQ profile, the outlet wrote that in Bia’s first membership go to at 19, Bia and his mates have been invited by Fetty Wap to affix him as a result of Bia can be a Gemini and had a birthday that month. “I am at a desk, consuming with Fetty,” Bia recalled. “For me, it is so surreal on the time.” A membership promoter thought that Bia may get Wap to return again to the membership. That chance opened to door that led to Bia changing into a membership promoter himself in L.A. and actually constructing a status for himself and the curiosity of celebs.

When working at Blind Dragon, “we have been bringing these events again the place it was just like the actors, the skaters, the fashions, the faculty youngsters, they’re all in the identical get together collectively,” Bia recalled. “That wasn’t how golf equipment in L.A. have been being run. We have been simply doing it as a result of we thought it was cool, we thought it was enjoyable.”

When Rihanna got here one evening, “everybody began displaying up,” he stated. Of the events he was identified for throwing then on the membership, he stated, “Kacey Musgraves and Kendall and Kourtney and Kylie are in a sales space, whereas me and Luka [Sabbat] are on the mic and DJing. And Child Keem and Dominic Fike are on the bar. It is like, everybody’s there. [And] Drake’s strolling within the again.”

Drake and Bia finally grew to become shut mates. “I take into account him an enormous brother,” Bia stated.

Of how he is ready to construct deep friendships, Bia advised Complex in February 2022 that he has a pure want to grasp everybody. “I’ve a real love for locating out how somebody grew up: ‘What do they like?’ Oh, shit, we like the identical issues! I like piquing real pursuits, constructing these friendships, and introducing mates to mates. It solely will get reciprocated,” he stated.

Bia runs his personal file label, Area Journey Information.

Bia spoke to Cool Hunting in June 2021 about operating the enterprise. “Now we’re experiencing a time the place the barrier to entry to the music enterprise is the bottom it’s ever been,” he stated. “Anybody can file a music from their front room and put it out. That over-saturation of music, it’s a very good factor. Now it’s change into, ‘How do you break an artist digitally?’ So there are all these new challenges that we by no means even considered as a result of the enterprise was operating a method for therefore lengthy.”

“A part of the rationale that we’re build up our personal file firm is as a result of we don’t have to stay to a standard mannequin,” he continued. “And I believe that’s the chance. We’re not reinventing the wheel right here. We’re nonetheless placing out music. However you will discover these non-traditional methods to accomplice up with artists and empower folks in a method that perhaps wasn’t considered earlier than, as a result of it was simply so systematic, and so many individuals on the high have been making a lot cash. Now that barrier’s been damaged.”

“There’s nobody that’s going to be extra in contact with what’s present than the youngsters which might be truly doing it,” he added. “And we’ve artists which might be 17 years previous and so they’re essentially the most self-sufficient folks I’ve ever seen. I signed this child when he was 15, and he was doing all this on his personal from his bed room.”

Regardless of rumors, Bia will not be from excessive wealth.

In his interview with Complex, Bia addressed the rumor his father runs Dior. “Anytime I do something cool or accomplish one thing, it should at all times get knocked as, like, ‘In fact he was in a position to do that, his dad does this,’” he prefaced. “However the purpose I haven’t even actually talked about my dad is as a result of I’ve such a foul relationship with him that I didn’t need to even speak about him. My dad is a photographer. I don’t even actually know the place he lives.”

“I’m cool to speak about it now, however it’s been so humorous as a result of the most important factor in my life has been my single mother elevating me, after which me making an attempt to perform issues to assist her out,” he added. “She taught me all the things and she or he’s such a beast, and the most important knock on me is ‘his dad gave him all the things,’ however it’s truly the precise reverse.”

With the Dior rumor particularly, Bia’s full final identify is Bialobos. “Somebody came upon my actual final identify, Googled it, and noticed there was somebody who labored at Dior who was distantly associated to my dad—like two cousins faraway from my dad’s facet—and was not even the top of it,” he stated. “But it surely changed into, ‘Zack’s dad labored at Dior. Or Zack’s dad runs Dior.’”

Zack Bia and Olivia Rodrigo referred to as it quits in August of 2020.

After simply over six months of relationship, Olivia Rodrigo and DJ Zack Bia have parted methods, Us Weekly reviews. There doesn’t appear to be any sort of dramatic purpose behind their break up, solely conflicting schedules and completely different instructions of their lives.

“Their relationship kind of fizzled,” and insider advised the publication. “They have been casually relationship however have not hung out collectively shortly. There have been no points — they each have completely different work schedules and completely different good friend teams.”

The singer was seen out on Friday, August 19, going to a live performance on the Bowery Ballroom with a gaggle of her mates and seemed to be in good spirits.